Final suggestions for a £1200 gaming PC

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This is what I have so far:
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Any suggestions? Wasn't sure about the RAM and the graphics card so help would be appreciated!
Thanks.
Edit: I meant £1200 as a top limit of my budget
 
The gigabyte SOC's apparently have a lot of problems at the moment. Something about a dodgy batch. I have the Gigabyte SE though which is the non overclocked version and apparently they are unaffected so I would suggest one of them possibly instead. Check out the issues first. Either way most certainly stick with the 480GTX.

The asus pro was meant to have a lot of problems also, though I'm unsure if these has subsided now with a bios update. Either way about a month back everyone was saying don't buy them pretty much. The MSI boards make for a good substitute.

My personal preference would be to get a 120gb SSD so that you can install all your software/games on it. But that's just me. Games can oftern be over 10gb now days and the OS is ~30gb so thats not a lot of space.

Personally for a 2500k I'd just stick to air cooling. They run so cool anyway. Mine at 4.5ghz doesn't go over 60 degrees at full load with a thermalright titan Fenrir cooler with both the fans on low. So if I pumped them up I would probably be seeing ~50 degrees and it's a lot cheaper. I hear the newer thermalright coolers are even better.
 
I will be gaming on one 1920-1080 monitor so pretty standard really. @,Max. Yep that's what I was thinking
 
Ah, sorry, missed to case/psu combo. Get the case but pick an TX or HX850 would be my suggestion for future proofing.
 
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Any reason you want the retail i5? The Oem one is on offer atm and already cheaper.

I only ask because im torn between getting the retail or oem.. I can't see much difference except the free game, which I wouldn't play I don't think.. never heard of it :p
 
David_VI said:
Any reason you want the retail i5? The Oem one is on offer atm and already cheaper.

I only ask because im torn between getting the retail or oem.. I can't see much difference except the free game, which I wouldn't play I don't think.. never heard of it :p
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If the difference is minimal, then the retail would be better as it is nice to have a spare cooler incase a friend needs it or if the cooler he has dies suddenly somehow!
I too would get a Corsair PSU instead. I would rather get a Corsair A50 cooler over the liquid cooler. You could also save your money by going for cheaper RAM
 
Operation said:
Ah, sorry, missed to case/psu combo. Get the case but pick an TX or HX850 would be my suggestion for future proofing.
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I would actually suggest the XFX 850w core. It's an absolute bargain and seasonic design. However that adds quite a bit more to his total as the coolmaster psu with case is cheap and seens as he probably doesn't have wish of sli it is likely a waste of money.

Though having said that I generally refuse to buy anything which isn't seasonic/corsair/enemax. But that is because seasonic generally make all of those psu's anyway so it's just re-branded with corsair/enemax (much like the XFX I suggested). However a lot of the corsairs are CWT, which is still a good company. I can't really say much about the coolmaster psu as a result as I've never really looked into them but seems a good deal.

David_VI said:
Any reason you want the retail i5? The Oem one is on offer atm and already cheaper.

I only ask because im torn between getting the retail or oem.. I can't see much difference except the free game, which I wouldn't play I don't think.. never heard of it :p
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I would personally suggest the OEM. If a cpu is going to die it will die in the first year. But this goes under the assumption your psu doesn't go pop and take out your cpu. Then you will wish you had a 3 year warrenty. So really the choice is up to you. CPU's are one of the most reliable parts in a pc.
 
Cleeecooo said:
If the difference is minimal, then the retail would be better as it is nice to have a spare cooler incase a friend needs it or if the cooler he has dies suddenly somehow!
I too would get a Corsair PSU instead. I would rather get a Corsair A50 cooler over the liquid cooler. You could also save your money by going for cheaper RAM
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Hey, are you talking to me or the OP? Confusing because my build sitting in the basket has a liquid cooler and i'm not using a Corsair PSU!
 
with £1200 you can get a phenomenal gaming rig that will last you ages.

to fit it in the £1200 budget i had to get a much cheaper case. i picked the HAF912 because its a great case, and its kinda similar to the HAF X

YOUR BASKET
2 x Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £209.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
1 x MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £109.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £99.98
1 x Pioneer BDR-205 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (OEM) £99.98
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 750W Power Supply £89.99
1 x Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £55.98
1 x Corsair Hydro H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £54.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS) £42.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £35.99
Total : £1,171.85 (includes shipping : FREE).

not quite sure how ive got free shipping, but it would probably be around £20-£25 for this lot
 
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